Recipient, Rhodes College Clarence Day Award
for Outstanding Research, 2011

Named as a “Top Young Historian” by
History News Network, 2007Charles R. Bailey Memorial Prize for Best
Article, New York State Association of European Historians, 2002

EDUCATION

University of
Rochester,
Doctor of Philosophy in History, May 1999; Adviser:Alice L. Conklin

Fields:Modern Europe, Early Modern Europe, European Imperialism and Colonialism

Vanderbilt
University,
Bachelor of Science in History, summa cum
laude, High Honors in History, May 1993

PUBLICATIONS

Books in Print:

The Thinking
Space:The Café as a Cultural
Institution in Paris, Italy, and Vienna,contributor and
co-editor with Leona Rittner and W. Scott Haine (Ashgate Press, 2013).

Paris Under Water:How the
City of Light Survived the Great Flood of 1910
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).

This book was reviewed in the New
York Times and was selected as a New
York Times Editors’ Choice.It was
also reviewed in the (London) Times
Literary Supplement,London Review of
Books, the Washington Post, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the Financial Times, the Memphis Flyer, the (Nashville) City Paper, and was discussed in
articles in the Guardian, the
(Memphis) Commercial Appeal,Folha de Sao Paulo, Chapter16.org (TN
Humanities Council), and Bookpage.com, among others.

A website, www.ParisUnderWater.com,
accompanies and extends this book by providing additional imagery of the 1910
flood.

Making Jazz
French:Music and Modern Life in
Interwar Paris(Duke University
Press, 2003).

This book is now in its
second printing and was a finalist for an award for Best Research in Recorded
Jazz from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 2004.

Humanities:The Magazine of the National Endowment
for the Humanities (March/April, 2005).

Music and
History:Bridging the Disciplines, contributor and
co-editor with Stanley C. Pelkey (University Press of Mississippi, 2005).

Journal
Special Issues In Print:

Special issue of
French Historical Studies on
“Disaster in French History,” co-editor with Elinor Accampo (Volume 36, Number
2, Spring 2013).

Books Under Contract and Forthcoming:

The Underground Reader:Sources in the Trans-Atlantic Counterculture,
co-editor with Robert Francis Saxe (under contract with Berghahn
Books).

Peer-Reviewed Articles
in Print and Forthcoming:

“Narratives of
Disaster and Recovery in the 1910 Paris Flood,” in Conference Proceedings of Images
of Disaster Conference (forthcoming, Schnell + Steiner, 2013).

“Envisioning Disaster in the 1910 Paris
Flood,” Journal of Urban History
(March 2011).

“Solidarism in
the City Streets:La Société protectrice contre les excès de l’automobilisme and the
Problem of Traffic in Early Twentieth Century Paris,” French Cultural Studies20 (Fall
2009).

“Artistic
Community and Urban Development in 1920s Montmartre,” French Politics, Culture, and Society 24 (Summer 2006).

“Making Jazz
French:The Reception of Jazz Music in
Paris, 1927-1934,” French Historical Studies
25 (Winter 2002). This article won the 2002 Charles R. Bailey
Memorial Prize for Best Article from the New York State Association of European
Historians.It is also reprinted in Tony
Whyton, ed., Jazz (The Library of
Essays on Popular Music series), (Surrey UK:Ashgate, 2011).

“Music-Halls and
the Assimilation of Jazz in 1920s Paris,” Journal
of Popular Culture 32 (Fall 2000).

Review of Laura
Lee Downs and Stéphane Gerson, Why
France?:American Historians Reflect on
an Enduring Fascination in Modern and
Contemporary France, November 2007.

Review of Sally
Debra Charnow, Theatre, Politics, and
Markets in Fin-de-Siècle France:Staging
Modernity for H-France Listserve (Society for French Historical Studies),
June 2006.

Review of
Michael Dregni, Django:The Life and Music of a Gypsy Legend in French Politics, Culture, and Society 23,
Winter 2005.

Review of E.
Taylor Atkins, ed., Jazz Planet in Canadian Journal of History 39, August
2004.

“Jazz,
Historians, and National Identity in Europe,” Book Review of Uta G. Poiger, Jazz, Rock, and Rebels:Cold War Politics and American Culture in a
Divided Germany, in Current Musicology
71-73, Spring 2001-Spring 2002.

“African-Americans
and the French Imagination,” Book Review Essay in Modern and Contemporary France, August 2000.

Book Reviews for
Choice

Review of Leif
Jerram, Streetlife:The Untold History of Europe’s Twentieth
Century (forthcoming in Choice).

Review of Dewar
MacLeod, Kids of the Black Hole:Punk Rock in Postsuburban California, Choice, August 2011.

Review of Joel
E. Vessels, Drawing France:French Comics and the Republic in Choice, February 2011.

Review of Rosemary
Wakeman, The Heroic City:Paris,
1945-1958, in Choice, September 2010.

Review of
Frederic Spotts, The Shameful Peace:How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived
the Nazi Occupation in Choice,
January 2010.

Review of
Richard Dennis, Cities in Modernity:Representations and Productions of Metropolitan
Space, 1840-1930,in Choice, May
2009.

Review of Hilary
Kaiser, French War Brides in
America:An Oral History in Choice, September 2008.

“Disaster
Photography and Historical Memory,” American
Society for Environmental History, San Francisco, CA, March 2014.Participant,
Roundtable Discussion, “The Challenge of Studying Music and History Together,”
American Historical Association, Washington, DC, January 2014 (under
consideration).

Organizer and
Chair, Roundtable Discussion, “Environmental History in France,” Society for
French Historical Studies Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2012.

“Narratives of
Destruction and Recovery in the 1910 Paris Flood,” Images of Disaster
Conference, University of Heidelberg (Germany), March 2012.

Participant,
“Intellectuals Abroad:Cross-National
Influences of Dispersal During World War II and Beyond,” Paper Titled:“Django on the Spiral,” Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation’s Cluster Grant for Faculty Workshop and Career Enhancement (FCE),
May 2011.

“Paris Under
Water:How the City of Light Survived the
Great Flood of 1910,” Poster presentation, American
Historical Association, January 2010.

“Contested
Memories of the Commune and the Dreyfus Affair During the 1910 Paris Flood,” Western Society for French History
Conference, Boulder, CO, October 2009.

“Walking in the
Flooded City: The Limits of Flânerie
in the 1910 Paris Flood,” Society for
French Historical Studies Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 2009.

“Photographing
Modernity in the 1910 Paris Flood,” Society
for French Historical Studies Conference, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April
2008.

“Picturing Paris
Under Water:The Visual Culture of the
1910 Paris Flood,” Society for the Anthropology
of North AmericaConference, New
Orleans, LA, April 2007.

“Regulating
Movement in the Modern City:Parisian Traffic
in the Early 1900s,” Southern Historical
Association Conference, Memphis, TN, November 2004.

Comment on
panel, “Double Crossings:National
Identity and the French Reception of Music, Psychoanalysis, and Art.” American Historical Association Conference,
Washington, DC, January 2004.

“Memories of
Montmartre in a Changing City, 1920-1925.” Cultural
Memory in France:Margins and Centers,
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida
State University, Tallahassee, FL, October, 2003.

“Artists,
Community, and City Life in 1920s Paris.” Tennessee
Conference of Historians, Nashville, TN, September 2003.

“Translating
Jazz Into French:Musicians, Labor, and
the Emerging Jazz Community in 1930s Paris.”Society for French Historical
Studies Conference, Washington DC, March 1999.

“Jazz and
Nostalgia:Making a French Jazz Culture,
1918-1940.”Western Society for French History Conference, Boston, MA, November
1998.

“Making
Enemies:Taxes, Labor, and the
Marketplace for Jazz in France, 1918-1940.”New York State Association of
European Historians Conference, Geneseo, NY, September 1998.

“Jazz as a World
Music.”Propaganda and Empire in France Conference, Francophone Area Studies
Research Group, University of Portsmouth, London, UK, September 1997.

“‘Real’ Jazz,
Blackness, and the Culture of the Machine:Hugues Panassié and the Search for Interwar French Identity.”New
York State Association of European Historians Conference, West Point, NY,
September 1996.